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In August Martin joined the Jannus brothers in Baltimore, Maryland, where he took some flying boat instruction. Tony and Rodger Jannus were starting a new venture at that time, operating a flying school with their Benoist flying boats and planning to bring out a new boat of their own design.

In January, 1915, Rodger Jannus and Martin started flying two Benoist flying boats at San Diego, California, under contract with the Panama-California Exposition, making daily flights and carrying passengers. Between January 5th and late March they made hundreds of flights and carried scores of passengers about the San Diego and Coronando area without accident. That spring they returned to Baltimore where they assisted in the new Jannus flying boat program.

In July, 1916, Martin joined the newly formed Pacific Aero Products Company of Seattle, Washington, as chief instructor for William E. Boeing at their new flying school. Later he also conducted the initial flight tests of some new model Boeing planes and remained there until the outbreak of World War I.

During the war Martin was commissioned as Lieutenant in the Aviation Section, U.S. Marine Corps.

In the spring of 1919 he sailed for South America as a representative of the Curtiss Export Corporation, taking a Curtiss OXX-powered "Jenny" for sales demonstration work. He arrived with the plane at Barranquilla, Columbia, in May where he gave a series of exhibitions. On June 19th he flew to Puerto Colombia, 40 miles, carrying a bag of mail and a passenger, both "firsts" in that country. After a month of successful exhibition and passenger carrying flights at Barranquilla and nearby towns Martin took his plane to Bogota, the capital city, where on August 9th he piloted the first flight ever made there. It was a fine flight over the city and he

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